'There Is No Conspiracy': Lawyer Fires Back Against Sanctions Motion in DuPont Water Settlement

Jeff Kray, of Marten Law in Seattle, accused of holding up DuPont's $1.19 billion water contamination settlement, called class counsel's sanctions motion an "intimidation tactic" based on a "fantastical conspiracy theory."

March 21, 2024 at 05:27 PM

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Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline

By Amanda Bronstad
staff reporter

The original version of this story was published on Law.com

What You Need to Know

Kray called the sanctions motion full of 'innuendo, conjecture, spurious allegations, and conclusions unsupported by fact or law.'
The sanctions motion comes after the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California filed a notice to appeal the Feb. 8 final approval of the DuPont deal.
DuPont's settlement resolves claims from thousands of retail water providers with public water drinking supplies contaminated with the toxic chemical PFAS.

A Seattle lawyer accused of holding up DuPont's $1.19 billion water contamination settlement fired back on Wednesday, insisting that class counsel's sanctions motion was an "intimidation tactic" based on a "fantastical conspiracy theory."